I stumbled across a particular comic on a corkboard at an IT shop where I worked on repairing a couple of printers. It sets up a "Die Hard" scenario with a bad guy talking about taking hostages and cutting the comm lines, and someone climbing the vent shafts (killing everyone who tries to stop him) to reconnect the wires, talking about "Up time." The ringleader then realizes that they're dealing with a SysAdmin.

Could someone here give me the title of this piece so I can find it in the archives?

I have been searching and googling for an hour now D:I'm looking for the comic where it shows why we should learn to code/program. Asking "Why should I learn to code?" is equivalent to someone in the 16th century asking "Why should I learn to read?".I'm 90% sure that this is an XKCD comic, though I may be wrong. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Source wrote:Yet for thousands of years writing was the preserve of the professional scribes employed by the elite. So what moved it to the masses? In Europe at least, writes literacy researcher Vee, the tipping point was the Domesday Book, an 11th-century survey of landowners that's been called the oldest public record in England.

CyndaQuillian wrote:I have been searching and googling for an hour now D:I'm looking for the comic where it shows why we should learn to code/program. Asking "Why should I learn to code?" is equivalent to someone in the 16th century asking "Why should I learn to read?".I'm 90% sure that this is an XKCD comic, though I may be wrong. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I think I've seen it, but I suspect it might be an Abstruse Goose or other comic commonly mistaken for xkcd.

A lady asked a man if her pants made her butt look big. And he responded by saying. Why do you ask? If I told you no you wouldn't believe me. And if I told you yes you would get upset at my honest answer. But if you must know you look sexy in any pants, but not as sexy as when you're naked.

Hey all! I have been trying to find a comic where the character is travelling or dreaming and comes across a world/island/universe where all the lost odd socks are. I believe this happens as he is contemplating something else.

Please tell me someone else remembers it too and that I'm not making up memories again because this little joke is honestly one that has stuck with me for years. I have tried searching the site/forums through Google as the search functionality is unavailable. I have been at it for hours now! It started as accidentally getting hyperfocused on it but it has now evolved into stubbornness verging on obsession. (All I wanted to do was send it to a friend who didn't get my reference when I brought it up)

Thank you and I apologise in advance if my brain somehow remembers this as a XKCD comic incorrectly.

For that much money surely someone can convince Randall to make it into a comic and split the profits 50-50? Surely $2500 is considerably more than he makes on a single comic (if it's not it means he's making around $400K a year from the comics and I find that unlikely), and he's prolific enough that he won't lose many people over a single lousy comic.

Clicked through all comics (1-1210) and What Ifs (1-44) at least three years old. Checked blag posts too. Found nothing visually similar. Includes other aerial transportation, such as zeppelins and airplanes. Did not inspect Click and Drag (1110). May have missed other versions of Umwelt (1037).

Could have overlooked it in large images, such as Height (482), or while glancing through. Spent several hours already, however, on both xkcd and non-xkcd searches. Resisted all attempts. Declines to retread old ground.

For that much money surely someone can convince Randall to make it into a comic and split the profits 50-50? Surely $2500 is considerably more than he makes on a single comic (if it's not it means he's making around $400K a year from the comics and I find that unlikely), and he's prolific enough that he won't lose many people over a single lousy comic.

If you're going to make sweeping bets like this you want to specify that is hasn't been a comic up to this point.

but yeah, as someone who's read the entire xkcd archive I have never seen that kind of comic in there. Besides, I think that an OhNoRobot search for "Joke" would turn it up pretty quickly.

"You never get over the desire to do stupid things. You simply have to overrule your stupid urges with an acquired sense of fear."

Recalled the first two (by content, not number). Supplemented that with a Google search. Guesses something like xkcd Computer Help. Fares better with older comics. Treads that more often.

Excels in some areas. Stinks at others. Examples:- Played a board game. Gave you a situation. Chose one action from a list. Spat out a numbered entry in a book (1-2400 or so). Repeated that number aloud while looking for it. Still forgot occasionally. (Saved it sometimes too. Continued repeating, despite forgetting. Listened for that.)- Always took notes in class. Remembered writing certain information during tests sometimes. (Generally retains written information better than spoken.)- Struggles horribly with names and faces. Have you ever forgotten a parent’s appearance after thirty minutes? (Planned to meet back up. Arrived first. Panicked slightly. Knew roughly what they looked like. Probably stared at people’s faces longer than polite. Recognized them on sight, fortunately.)

Shrugs. Usually feels like the forgetful one. Occurs often with names. Definitely recalls events better off forgotten, though.

I can't find this one because I'm shaky on the actual content, but the symbolism of the art really struck me. Usually, Randall depicts gender with hair (long hair is female, the no hair default head circle defaults to male), which annoys me. But, one time, in a comic about the future, gender was communicated with words, and the hair was completely different. Refreshingly, awesomely, reference-worthy different. But I can't find it. I think maybe the characters were talking about cultural references to the past, and with a floating vehicle of some kind, (And, no, I'm not talking about Nostalgia https://xkcd.com/318/; that one has the usual hair convention.)

And, unsurprisingly, I remembered it a bit wrong. Namely, that gender is marked for the drawn characters, in some way: it isn't. However, what is true is that "male" is not the default. The character quoting Star Wars references a grandmother (not father), and both characters have a default hairstyle that does not communicate gender. So they could be gender free, or a new gender, or both female, or both male, or one male and one male, or any other combination or permutation. We simply don't know. But we do know that the default is not male. Thank you for finding that for me!

I require your help finding a comic. It shows a father talking "lines" to his son.The son develops the ideas of these lines whith each panel, they transform into curved lines and finally into a chaotic idea pool at the time he graduates. After that the get flatter and flatter until he tells his sond the same old boring lines.I would be happy if you could link me to the panel I search.

I thought it is an xkcd, but yesterdaay i digged trough the whole archive and didn't find it. Although I may have missed it.Google didn't help me either.

Google is help ful to everyone. Maybe you are trying to be so rude with google.

I'm trying to find an xkcd comic where women's and men's talking styles where compared. Men make hierarchical digressions but eventually return to the point while women don't. The drawing was just a tree showing it. I was pretty sure it was from xkcd but I am beginning to doubt it because I've searched ohnorobot, google and the like to no avail. Does anybody remember which one it was?